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Buying Into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World Volume 31
Contributor(s): Prendergast, Catherine (Author)
ISBN: 082296001X     ISBN-13: 9780822960010
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
OUR PRICE:   $42.75  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2008
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Annotation: Many developing countries have little choice but to "buy into English" as a path to ideological and material betterment.
Based on extensive fieldwork in Slovakia, Prendergast assembles a rich ethnographic study that records the thoughts, aspirations, and concerns of Slovak nationals, language instructors, journalists, and textbook authors who contend with the increasing importance of English to their rapidly evolving world. She reveals how the use of English in everyday life has becomes suffused with the terms of the knowledge and information economy, where language is manipulated for power and profit.
"Buying into English" presents an astute analysis of the factors that have made English so prominent and yet so elusive, and a deconstruction of the myth of guaranteed viability for new states and economies through English.
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
Dewey: 427.943
LCCN: 2008004243
Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.60 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Many developing countries have little choice but to "buy into English" as a path to ideological and material betterment.
Based on extensive fieldwork in Slovakia, Prendergast assembles a rich ethnographic study that records the thoughts, aspirations, and concerns of Slovak nationals, language instructors, journalists, and textbook authors who contend with the increasing importance of English to their rapidly evolving world. She reveals how the use of English in everyday life has becomes suffused with the terms of the knowledge and information economy, where language is manipulated for power and profit.
Buying into English presents an astute analysis of the factors that have made English so prominent and yet so elusive, and a deconstruction of the myth of guaranteed viability for new states and economies through English.